[Mass. - Boston - Franklin Park Zoo in Jamaica Plain; view of visitors looking at bear cages] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Mass. - Boston - Franklin Park Zoo in Jamaica Plain; view of visitors looking at bear cages], c1914. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/36/3659866a1265-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: [Mass. - Boston - Franklin Park Zoo in Jamaica Plain; view of visitors looking at bear cages], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Mass. - Boston - Franklin Park Zoo in Jamaica Plain; view of visitors looking at bear cages]
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Visitors crowd the railings in front of the bear cages at the Franklin Park Zoo in Jamaica Plain, a neighborhood on Boston's southwest side. The zoo grew out of Franklin Park, the large public green that Frederick Law Olmsted's firm laid out as part of Boston's park system, and it opened in the years just before the First World War. Animal exhibits like these drew city families on weekend outings, and the scene shows how such a visit looked in that era. The c1914 date comes from an old caption card and has not been checked against other sources.
| Created / published | c1914. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photo copyrighted by Thomson & Thomson. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,185 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-124406 |
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